Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The pull of the sea

“It was the funniest and the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen, because too many stupid things happened in it,” his Web site says. “For instance, no shark can pull a boat backwards at a fast speed with a light line and stern cleats that are only held in there by two bolts.”

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Jenny, You might enjoy this interview with Dick Francis on the BBC web site. Its on the Tuesday night edition. You have about a week to listen before its gone forever!http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/

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I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.